sad - Story 120426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, God,” Martha whispered, holding the invitation at arm's length. The cursive script swam before her eyes. It was a cruel joke, this reminder of a life she felt had never really begun. The world seemed muted, its colors dulled.

She thought of all the things she had lost, the chances missed, the relationships that had crumbled. A tear escaped and rolled down her cheek, landing with a soft thud on the pristine white envelope.

The weight of the past settled on her shoulders, a crushing burden. She sank into her chair, the invitation clutched in her hand. The thought of facing her former classmates, of being judged and measured, filled her with a sense of futility.

Emotion: sad

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.52 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.50

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sad. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 sad stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sad emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sad vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.436
`😔`	0.405
`S`	0.384
`无法`	0.341
`L`	0.337

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.749
`la`	-0.614
`l`	-0.471
`/`	-0.350
`!`	-0.322